DiDi Labs’ End-to-end System for the IWSLT 2020 Offline Speech TranslationTask

Arkady Arkhangorodsky, Yiqi Huang, Amittai Axelrod


Abstract
This paper describes the system that was submitted by DiDi Labs to the offline speech translation task for IWSLT 2020. We trained an end-to-end system that translates audio from English TED talks to German text, without producing intermediate English text. We use the S-Transformer architecture and train using the MuSTC dataset. We also describe several additional experiments that were attempted, but did not yield improved results.
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2020.iwslt-1.6
Volume:
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation
Month:
July
Year:
2020
Address:
Online
Editors:
Marcello Federico, Alex Waibel, Kevin Knight, Satoshi Nakamura, Hermann Ney, Jan Niehues, Sebastian Stüker, Dekai Wu, Joseph Mariani, Francois Yvon
Venue:
IWSLT
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SIGSLT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
69–72
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.iwslt-1.6
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.iwslt-1.6
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Arkady Arkhangorodsky, Yiqi Huang, and Amittai Axelrod. 2020. DiDi Labs’ End-to-end System for the IWSLT 2020 Offline Speech TranslationTask. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation, pages 69–72, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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DiDi Labs’ End-to-end System for the IWSLT 2020 Offline Speech TranslationTask (Arkhangorodsky et al., IWSLT 2020)
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